Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263008AbVCDTsW (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Mar 2005 14:48:22 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263028AbVCDTsJ (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Mar 2005 14:48:09 -0500 Received: from smtpq3.home.nl ([213.51.128.198]:35039 "EHLO smtpq3.home.nl") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262999AbVCDTWT (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Mar 2005 14:22:19 -0500 Message-ID: <4228B514.4020704@keyaccess.nl> Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 20:20:52 +0100 From: Rene Herman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8a6) Gecko/20050111 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Linus Torvalds CC: Andrew Morton , Jens Axboe , tglx@linutronix.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: RFD: Kernel release numbering References: <422751C1.7030607@pobox.com> <20050303181122.GB12103@kroah.com> <20050303151752.00527ae7.akpm@osdl.org> <20050303234523.GS8880@opteron.random> <20050303160330.5db86db7.akpm@osdl.org> <20050304025746.GD26085@tolot.miese-zwerge.org> <20050303213005.59a30ae6.akpm@osdl.org> <1109924470.4032.105.camel@tglx.tec.linutronix.de> <20050304005450.05a2bd0c.akpm@osdl.org> <20050304091612.GG14764@suse.de> <20050304012154.619948d7.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AtHome-MailScanner-Information: Neem contact op met support@home.nl voor meer informatie X-AtHome-MailScanner: Found to be clean Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1162 Lines: 28 Linus Torvalds wrote: > I've long since decided that there's no point to making "-pre". What's the > difference between a "-pre" and a daily -bk snapshot? Really? The fact that not a script, but Linus Torvalds, decides that the tree is in a state he likes to share with others. You have been doing -pre's all this time, it's just that you are calling them -rc's. > So when I do a release, it _is_ an -rc. The fact that people have trouble > understanding this is not _my_ fault. You have no intent whatsoever to release your -rc1's as the next -final, so what is this private definition of "release candidate" we are not understanding? Note, I am not complaining about 2.6. I think it's an absolute wonderful kernel, it works beautifully for me, I have no stability issues, but you indicated you wanted more testers for -rc and that's simply not going to happen when there aren't any real -rc's. Rene. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/